29 U.S.C. § 217 — Injunction proceedings

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Federal district courts can issue injunctions against violations of section 215. This includes stopping an employer from withholding unpaid minimum wages or overtime pay owed to employees. It doesn't cover wages employees are already barred from recovering under section 255's time limits.

This is one undivided rule. The district courts — along with the U.S. District Court for the District of the Canal Zone, the District Court of the Virgin Islands, and the District Court of Guam — have jurisdiction, when good cause is shown, to restrain violations of section 215. For violations of section 215(a)(2) specifically, that restraint can include stopping an employer from withholding minimum wages or overtime pay the court finds due to employees under this chapter. This doesn't apply to wages employees are already barred from recovering, at the time the suit to restrain the violation begins, because of the time limits in section 255.

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The district courts, together with the United States District Court for the District of the Canal Zone, the District Court of the Virgin Islands, and the District Court of Guam shall have jurisdiction, for cause shown, to restrain violations of section 215 of this title, including in the case of violations of section 215(a)(2) of this title the restraint of any withholding of payment of minimum wages or overtime compensation found by the court to be due to employees under this chapter (except sums which employees are barred from recovering, at the time of the commencement of the action to restrain the violations, by virtue of the provisions of section 255 of this title).

Source credit: (June 25, 1938, ch. 676, § 17, 52 Stat. 1069; Oct. 26, 1949, ch. 736, § 15, 63 Stat. 919; Pub. L. 85–231, § 1(3), Aug. 30, 1957, 71 Stat. 514; Pub. L. 86–624, § 21(c), July 12, 1960, 74 Stat. 417; Pub. L. 87–30, § 12(b), May 5, 1961, 75 Stat. 74.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1938Enacted · Act of June 25, 1938, ch. 676 · 52 Stat. 1069
1949Amended · Act of Oct. 26, 1949, ch. 736 · 63 Stat. 919
1957Amended · Pub. L. 85-231 · 71 Stat. 514
1960Amended · Pub. L. 86-624 · 74 Stat. 417
1961Amended · Pub. L. 87-30 · 75 Stat. 74

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 676 on 1938-06-25.

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